03/07/2025
Best albums of the 1st half of 2025
Nice new music – with 8 debut albums, 4 EP
Bands from England, USA, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Sweden, USA, Australia, Canada
Moreish Idols – All In The Game (debut, Speedy Wunderground)
Anika – Abyss (Sacred Bones )
Snapped Ankles – Hard Times Furious Dancing (The Lead Label )
Chalk – Conditions III (EP, from Belfast, Nice Swan Recordings)
Heartworms – Glutten for Punishment (debut, Speedy Wunderground)
Pit Pony – Deadstar (Clue )
Ditz – Never Exhale (Normal Music/Domino recordings)
Floodlights – Underneath (Play It Again Sam, Australia)
Decious – Vol II, Splender & Obedience (the Leaf Label) with members of Fat White Family, Warmduscher
Mogwai – The Bad Fire (Rock Action)
Bria Salmena – Big Dog, (debut album for the Canadian singer of Frigs, Sub Pop)
Keeley Forsyth , Matthew Bourne – Hand To mouth (EP, fatcat)
Marianne Faithfull – Burning Moonlight (Record Store edition, DECCA )
Daily Toll – A Profound Non Event (debut, from Australia, Tough Love)
Lambrini Girls – Who Let The Dogs Out (debut album, City Slang)
SKLOSS – The Pattern Speaks (debut album, Fuzz club)
Courting - Lust for Life, Or: 'How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story' (PIAS)
I Dreamed I Dream – boypoisoning (EP, from Cork Ireland, Pizza Pizza)
Lifeguard – Ripped and Torn (debut album, Matador)
These New Puritans – Crooked Wing (Domino )
Vi**ra Boys – Viagr aboys (Shrimptech Enterprises)
Preoccupations – III At Ease (Born Loser)
Sharon van Etten and the Attachment Theory - Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory (debut, jagjaguwar )
Murder Capital – Blindness (Human Season)
Moreish Idols – All In The Game,debut, Speedy Wunderground Anika–Abyss (Sacred Bones Snapped Ankles–Hard Times Furious Dancing (The Lead Label Chalk – Conditions III (EP, Nice Swan Heartworms – Glutten for Punishment (debut, Speedy Wunderground Pit Pony–Deadstar (Clue Ditz–Never Exhale...